LinvilleGorge

He doesn't have long speed. I think that's pretty clear watching him play. But he has everything else. And let's be real, how often does long speed really come into play for a RB. How often does a RB really break out into the open and cut loose in the NFL? Honestly probably only a handful of times a season for most. I'll take a guy who has the elite vision, agility, short area burst, power, etc. over the guy who has wheels in the open field.

I was definitely pretty damn surprised by that. Imagine getting trucked on the gridiron then he walks into the gym and you think you're gonna get it back on this 5'9" dude and then he drops a hammer on you on the hardwood too. Dayum...

Good. Deep RB class. I'm all for taking one in the mid-late rounds. If he's there in the early 4th? Sure. Let's go.

If gas leak and carbon monoxide are rules out I wonder if something happened with his wife causing her to suddenly pass whether it was heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, whatever and 90+ year old Gene Hackman was just unable to care for himself properly without her? I don't know, just a really weird situation.

Solid DL. The Seahawks just say overpaid him so he became a cap casualty. Still only 28. He's been consistently solid.

Sportrac's projection is even worse on a per year basis. This is for a guy who basically put up Legette level numbers last year and half the fanbase is ready to write him off as a bust. LOL

Darius Slayton at his projected 3 year/$37.5M contract or no one? Absolutely give me no one then. Not even a difficult decision.

Outside of Bryce we've pretty much been drafting on RAS during the Tepper era. It hasn't landed us many football players. If we showed up on Sundays and competed with Combine drills we might be able to win some games.

If we think he's an ELITE player at the position. I mean a Gronk, Kelce, Witten,Sharpe, Heap, level player (basically Greg Olsen being his FLOOR)... I'm not mad.

At least they didn't draft Kayvon Thibodeaux. LOL

It's about playing the odds. You're trying to hit on a long shot when you're picking a guy with all the measurables and none of the production. 3rd round? Sure, I can be sold on that depending on how the board falls. Top 10? Craziness.

My point was and is that it's rare. LOL

So one. Who was a third round pick because of his lack of college production. If we're talking third round this becomes a completely different risk/reward conversation. The one thing the vast majority of NFL busts have in common is that they had the athleticism. Every year around this time people fall in love with athletic freaks who didn't produce and the one thing most of them have in common is that they will go on to continue not producing in the NFL. It's rare for guys to see their production increase at a higher level of competition. Not non-existent but definitely far from the norm.

Go down the list of good rushers in the NFL and find me one with single digit college sacks. A guy doesn't have to be an All-American caliber college producer to project well but this guy but up 3rd or 4th guy off the bench numbers as a starter. That's alarming as hell.

I don't buy into this concept that a high major P5 coaching staff would play an elite NFL caliber athlete in a role that would lessen his impact. I also don't buy into this concept that you overdraft underperforming high level athletes on the hopes that you can coach them into productivity. There's a time and a place to draft these types and IMO it ain't in the first two rounds of the draft. These types are the prototypical NFL busts.

Honestly the right call. I can't see him going higher than the 4th or 5th and he'll make plenty of NIL money while trying to improve his stock.

I hope Stewart isn't even on our list of potential 1st round picks and is really low on our list of 2nd and 3rd round picks. He just had a terrifying lack of production for a top 100 pick. He's the type of guy you take a late round flyer on to see if you can make a football player out of an athlete but a pretty good P5 college program failed to do it so your odds aren't great.

He's an absolute prototype of a workout warrior bust. Maybe he'll break that mold but it's highly doubtful. I honestly wouldn't want him at #57 much less at #8.

Igninosun? GTFO. I watched all of OSU's playoff games and everyone's game plan was to try to pick on that guy. It was hard to do because of the surrounding talent but that guy sucks and he'd have to play with boxing gloves on his hands to keep him from grabbing not to be getting constantly flagged in the NFL. He didn't look draft worthy and I doubt he would be if he was playing on some random P5 team.

We've been drafting workout wonders for years now. Outside of Bryce pretty much all of our picks on the Tepper era have been guys who check all the measurables boxes and what has the result been? Trash. There are no prospect evaluations cheat codes but we sure have been operating like RAS is one.

Only getting a 5th for him pretty much confirms what I've been thinking. Deebo is cooked.

Y'all are freaking out over nothing. The top prospects not doing drills is the norm these days. Did we see Travis Hunter out there? Cam Ward? Shedeur Sanders? Mason Graham? Ashton Jeanty? Abdul Carter was dealing with the foot issue but probably wouldn't have done drills either. This is normal. It sucks but it's normal.

I hate it but if you're considered a top 10-15 pick you generally just don't do drills at the Combine. That's been the case for awhile now.